April/May 2025
Issue Out now

Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring the Radical Rides of the One Moto Show in Sin City, Harley Tracker from Kully Co., Cheyenne Rides Again, Hookie’s Honda CB550, and Inside Motorcycle Escorts. Get yours today!

April/May 2025
Issue Out now

Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring the Radical Rides in Sin City, Harley Tracker from Kelly Co., Cheyenne Rides Again, Hookie’s Honda CB550, and Inside Motorcycle Escorts. Get yours today!

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Modern History The Ace Cafe’s 30th Anniversary

Modern History The Ace Cafe’s 30th Anniversary

Story by Mike Seate  •  Photos by Simon Everett Three rapid-paced decades have zipped by since London’s Ace Cafe held its first reunion party. Back then, the once-popular transport cafe had been bought by a tire changing firm, its tall bay windows filled...

Bandit in Disguise

Over the past 17 years, some of my favorite custom bike photo features we've run in Cafe Racer magazine have focused on motorcycles no one would ever suspect of making great canvasses for modification. The brilliantly conceived Suzuki bandit designed and built by...

AIME At The Future

We're just back from the annual AIME Powerspots Expo in Las Vegas, a multifaceted event that reveals the coming trends in streetbikes and all the cool, innovative kit that comes with them. Straight from the off, it was reassuring to see how strongly represented the...

Where The Rocker Scene Thrives

We recently heard from a longtime pal of Cafe Racer magazine, one Hiro Madea of Kobe, Japan. The 45 year-old is a veritable wellspring of energy and ideas in the country's classic motorcycle and ton-up culture movements and for our February/March issue, he's...

Trucks, Stopped

Longtime readers of Cafe Racer magazine will know we're beyond skeptical when it comes to the rush to fill our roads with autonomous vehicles. The tecchies see a veritable gold rush in an unproven technology that rightfully strikes fear into the hearts of the...

Streetbike Sales Remain Steady

The US streetbike market remained flat in 2024 according to international Motorcycle industry analysts MC Data. The Rome, Italy-based firm reports that 462,641 new stereetbikes sold in our country last year, despite a roaring stock market and healthy economy....